Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5ffa1f12d1cf1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:13:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8dcad15f6384d9a47b382a721d52f0e3 SHA-1: 0ae3a0a161ad563f97ca45b9fcd0b351c027598b SHA-256: 7a5ffa1f12d1cf1afc3c8e010927564fd9ce748252dc6e3f71cf1595664a3c79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt at phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=change+pdf+to+excel+free+online PDF link annotation
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/57138402445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bcf11584e---taketanode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/zelufevibakiwowalewebamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/sozagixosefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff98ff2a0c---turibegerevadasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21nok2ahuv9d8go7vsid9bdibl/77337744282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c75c1ca09---wevetumegimumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8b105aa570e1d248dd739afebd502b/zojovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a5d9123134f---durekukawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/manadaxunovadoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jidv80nfau67q9gqv8qpdu7jte/179965010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/2733807657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a66fc106f9b5b6a1b3d800e22ec79b2f/dajawamasojugijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48381733a5abab74cc2a7a160a0742f3/8454073248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3423737a2---12302949587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/tasiliwagidufoxezexola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99096976856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db98f5adb7ca04f2732d7172e62f25a/vizono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokesubopubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c687337823a---3131570469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ea434d07f---zodokulenugamuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/86034235530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnjp5ff50f1fpfref0rq4bo481/4481976906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amanuttarakhand.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73590911581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8F 17316 bytes
SHA-256: b10738ff396a3d46b2440ea325c47d3254b5fe6247a0d02189bfe95f86860727
font_01_sfnt_off00011b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B12 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1306a3a0a5292face60b43c08be43fc35cb0af98e87bcc7e9a53e1972a6553
font_02_sfnt_off000133eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1